Dominica
Dominica (officially Commonwealth of Dominica) is a country in Caribbean, with its capital at Roseau, and is home to roughly 66.2K people.
English is the official language; the currency in circulation is Eastern Caribbean dollar ($); people from here are called Dominican.
- »Known as the Nature Isle, it has a boiling lake, a flooded fumarole reachable only on foot.
Dominica shares no land border with anything, so every approach is by sea or air. The closest other territories on file are Saint Lucia (176 km), Antigua and Barbuda (188 km) and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (243 km), measured centre to centre.
Roseau is built on the site of a Kalinago settlement and sits at the mouth of a river, hemmed in by steep forested slopes.
733 km² (283 sq mi), 175th largest of 198 countries and territories on file, almost exactly the size of Bahrain.
Population 66,205, 189th of 198 on file. That averages 90 per km² (234 per sq mi).
One of very few national flags to use purple, in the sisserou parrot at its centre, a bird found nowhere else on Earth. The ten green stars are the ten parishes.